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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2016
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Rida Shawky Assaad, Murphy, TX (US);
David Wayne Evans, Bentonville, AR (US);
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/07 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/07 (2013.01); H02M 2001/0009 (2013.01); H02M 2003/078 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for flying capacitor balancing in multilevel converters are disclosed. Example flying capacitor balancing circuitry can include voltage difference sense and control circuitry and duty cycle timing adjustment circuitry. The voltage difference sense and control circuitry can generate a compensation control signal for the duty cycle timing adjustment circuitry.